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Before Midnight
Film
FilmR2004
Before Sunset
Directed by Richard Linklater
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more. From TMDB
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Before Sunset is a 2004 drama romance film, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Vernon Dobtcheff.
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60 of 173 · most liked firstWhat’s your favorite movie from every decade in your life? 90s: Fire Walk With Me 00s: Before Sunset 10s: Inside Llewyn Davis 20s: The Batman
positive · AI labelView post →You never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details. Movie: Before Sunset (2004) Director: Richard Linklater 🌳 🧡 🌄 (Photo by Kirpal Singh)
neutral · AI labelView post →rewatched Before Sunset yesterday, my first time seeing it in my 30s i believe. it of course hit a good deal harder, but also felt giddier. there’s no other film like it, really.
positive · AI labelView post →Seeing Before Sunset in a movie theater at 11am on a Monday morning really is the perfect way to start the week.
positive · AI labelView post →ZI: Kogonada returns to form in flooring fashion with a bold, beautiful, and beguiling film that's like BEFORE SUNSET was merged with LA JETÉE to reflect on the art of time itself just as its all slipping away. Best of the festival thus far 📽️ My #Sundance2026 review: www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
neutral · AI labelView post →Sunrise Restaurant Before Sunset Dewey Beach, DE, USA | 2025 [Kodachrome Film Simulation] #Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #FujifilmX-T5 #UrbanGaze
neutral · AI labelView post →You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details. From movie 🎥 : Before Sunset (2004) Director: Richard Linklater ♥️ 🧡 💚 Paper Mulberry fruit 🍓 (Photo by Kirpal)
neutral · AI labelView post →29: Favorite movie trilogy Back to Richard Linklater and the Before trilogy "Before Sunrise" 1995 "Before Sunset" 2004 "Before Midnight" 2013 #MovieMadness
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #ColloquialSongs Day 20 - Easy Come, Easy Go A Waltz For A Night -Julie Delpy *maybe not SO easy...but the amazing Movie Trilogy of Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before Midnight came to my mind and got stuck in it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhRk...
neutral · AI labelView post →During Den of Thieves 2 I thought about Ronin, Tenet, the Miami Vice movie, Rififi, The Flintstones, Before Sunset and The 15:17 to Paris (complimentary)
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Before Sunset (2005), my favorite film in the Before Trilogy #Films #FilmSky 🎥🎬 #NowWatching
positive · AI labelView post →Thinking about how much I love Before Sunset again. Didn't see it in a theater, never had seen Before Sunrise. Saw it on a very very very small television that only had hbo & ny1 in a tiny room in east Harlem by chance after waking up. Prob best movie viewing of my life
positive · AI labelView post →I'm celebrating Women's History Month with a movie themed daily challenge - let's see 10 favorite female movie characters. #FilmSky 🎥 Before Sunset, Celine (played by Julie Delpy)
neutral · AI labelView post →Before Sunset is the best of the trilogy but my wife and I talk about Before Midnight way more often. What a great movie that is.
positive · AI labelView post →The movie Before Sunset has me convinced and terrified that someone from my past is going to try to reconnect with me at one of my book signings.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a lot of fun answers but without question the real answer is the time Thomas and I, in the miserable depths of the first pandemic winter in 2021, watched Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, both for the first time, back to back as one continuous movie
positive · AI labelView post →So I think I genuinely hated One Night Only. It’s funny that Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, a movie targeted at teens and itself a copy of the Before Sunset/After Hours templates, manages to be funnier, sexier and more memorable. Why even have the sex purge concept if you can’t interrogate it?
neutral · AI labelView post →Wrote this before Seattle indie theaters took a hit, but wanted to share even more go see BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN at SIFF, lots of David Lynch at The Beacon, Hayao Miyazaki at Central Cinema, BEFORE SUNRISE/BEFORE SUNSET at NW Film Forum via Grand Illusion, & more 📽️👇 www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →My first introduction to Nina Simon's distinct voice was from the last scene of the movie Before Sunset. Discovering her took me on a journey of discovering Jazz and Blues and some amazing music and artists. She did put a spell on me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip9P...
neutral · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #FilmSky 🎥 Favorite romantic movie. Before Sunset (2004)
neutral · AI labelView post →fav film 94, 04, 14, 24? 94 - Satantango 04 - Before Sunset 14 - National Gallery 24 - Yannick
positive · AI labelView post →And my last film of 2025, no.539, is Before Sunset, because of course it is.
positive · AI labelView post →In Before Sunset, when Jesse says “There’s no laughter in my home” it is one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard in a movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's second movie is Before Sunset (2004) 🍿 #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →The film was a success on its release, taking $22.5m from its meagre $2.5m budget. It quickly became a cult classic and led to two sequels – Before Sunset and Before Midnight. 32/34
neutral · AI labelView post →Me: at 3 a.m. Thinking in movie quotes "You can never replace anyone. What is lost —is lost." (The anatomy of remembering.) Before Sunset
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from every decade in your life? 90s: Scream 00s: Before Sunset 10s: Little Women 20s: Oppenheimer
positive · AI labelView post →I think a lot about this single moment in Before Sunset. the entire film builds a beautiful, longing tension around these characters' unwillingness/inability to cross a physical boundary with each other, and then this tiny little movement from julie delpy sticks in my memory like a knife.
neutral · AI labelView post →saw Before Sunset in a theater last night — the first time I’d ever seen one of the trilogy in a theater — and was reminded once again that it is quite possibly a perfect movie. just a great story, dialogue and acting, and a beautiful backdrop, that’s all you need! everything else is superfluous
positive · AI labelView post →Tempted to go with the last lines of either The Apartment or Before Sunset, but instead I'm going to go with a line that isn't the last one in the film; I'm just going to say it's when Orson Welles explains a thing in F for Fake, because to say any more would be to spoil a singular experience.
neutral · AI labelView post →Richard Linklater's classic romance, BEFORE SUNRISE, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Join us for a double feature with its beloved follow-up, BEFORE SUNSET, on June 16th, the date Jesse & Céline first came into each others' lives. Tix now on sale! grandillusioncinema.org/film/before-...
neutral · AI labelView post →meanwhile Before Sunset is the best film that takes place in 2 hours.
positive · AI labelView post →My ★★★★★ review of Before Sunset (2004) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/dCtiHB
positive · AI labelView post →Just walked out of a screening of Before Sunset and man do I love that film. I could listen to those two talk to each other for hours.
positive · AI labelView post →Favourite new-to-me films of 2025 #Filmsky An Autumn Tale (1998) Before Sunset (2004) Before Midnight (2012) Whisper of the Heart (1995) The Boy and the Heron (2023) Wild at Heart (1990) Mulholland Drive (2001) The Fabelmans (2022) Petite Maman (2021) My Life as a Courgette (2016) Swing Time (1936)
positive · AI labelView post →Movie marathon: Before Sunrise 28 Days Later Before Sunset 28 Weeks Later Before Midnight 28 Years Later
neutral · AI labelView post →#moviechallenge #filmsky Day 29: Your favourite movie trilogy The Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995) Before Sunset (2004) Before Midnight (2013) dir. Richard Linklater
neutral · AI labelView post →30 day film challenge: Day 6: a film you never get tired of Before Sunrise/ Before Sunset Have to watch it as a pair, just so romantic.
positive · AI labelView post →Best "I know" in film: Before Sunset (2004) or Empire Strikes Back (1980)?
neutral · AI labelView post →5 Faves - 5 Tags Weather: Misty and crisp 🌫️ Animal: Otters 🦦(all animals are my favourite really) Cake: Diplomat 🥮 Holiday: Halloween/Harvest 🎃 Movie: Before Sunset 🌅 I Tag: @haibobby.bsky.social @didkylejust.bsky.social @thearcadebear.bsky.social @sumoomoo.bsky.social @polygonprincess.com
neutral · AI labelView post →going to a screening of the Mock Trial movie eeee!! & then tomorrow I have a ticket for You Can See Everything & then on Friday I get to show Before Sunset to my boyfriend who’s never seen it!! great week for a movie lover comme moi!
positive · AI labelView post →They only appear in one sequence (like most of the actors in it) and they're talking to each other in bed, which feels like that would place it after Before Sunset, but that movie didn't exist yet. In retrospect, I think it adds to the unreality of the whole thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★★ review of Before Sunset (2004) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/f6y7zz
positive · AI labelView post →#MarchMovieChallenge #FilmSky 🎥 Somebody reunited in a movie. Before Sunset (2004)
neutral · AI labelView post →big linklater guy, maybe owing to the years I spent in Austin while I think Before Sunset and Slacker are his unimpeachable perfect movies, Everybody Wants Some! is maybe my third favorite linklater movie, it’s so fun and good and the most app use of “just guys being dudes” or whatever
positive · AI labelView post →Just realized that Blue Moon is only Richard Linklater's 4th film ever (out of 23) to receive *any* Oscar nominations, after Before Sunset (Screenplay), Before Midnight (Screenplay again), and Boyhood (6 nominations).
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favorite ending to a movie? #FilmSky 📽️ Before Sunset (2004) Celine: "You're gonna miss that plane." Jesse (smiling) : "I know."
neutral · AI labelView post →August's Movie Musts 2025: MORE favourite directors in no particular order. 😁🎥🎞️😎👌 32. 🎬 Richard Linklater My favourites: 🎞 Before Sunrise 🎞 School of Rock 🎞 Before Sunset #MovieSky #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →just thankful My ★★★★★ review of Before Sunset on Letterboxd boxd.it/7PV3qb
positive · AI labelView post →Using Tarantino’s one-film-per-director rule, here are some favourites: Before Sunset The Tree of Life Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Shoplifters Certified Copy Oppenheimer Silence Parasite A Separation Us and Them Into the Wild The White Ribbon The Martian The Descendants Little Women La La Land
neutral · AI labelView post →great trilogy, especially the second film BEFORE SUNSET
positive · AI labelView post →What's your all time favorite line in a movie? #FilmSky 🎥 Before Sunset (2004) Celine:"Baby, you're gonna miss that plane." Jesse (smiling and twisting wedding ring): "I know."
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching Before Sunset (2004). What? Not a horror film? Not a shitty 80s action movie? No, I'm dabbling in the world of legitimate cinema for a change. There's a reason I'm watching this, which will become apparent in a few weeks... #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →My to watch movie list for the 2000s • Paranormal Activity • The Host • Let the Right One In • Children of Men • Pan's Labyrinth • Before Sunset • 28 Days Later • Letters from Iwo Jima • Oldboy • Mystic River
neutral · AI labelView post →“Taken together–which they should be–BEFORE SUNRISE and BEFORE SUNSET make up one of the supreme movie romances of the post-’80s era…” Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune See ‘em both as a double feature June 16th at our NW Film Forum popup! grandillusioncinema.org/film/before-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose one film each from 50 great directors. Name the film and director, along with a still. 18/50 Film: Before Sunset (2004) Director: Richard Linklater #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the most beautiful and most -real- films I've ever watched. God, I hope the final film of this trilogy is able to live up to everything that has come before! My ★★★★★ review of Before Sunset on Letterboxd boxd.it/7Yt4mp #filmsky #movies #letterboxd
positive · AI labelView post →#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥 Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 1: Before Sunset (2004)
neutral · AI labelView post →it’s not a spy thriller, an action film, or even a comedy, really. it’s a lovely, human story that defies categorization, which is why everybody dislikes it. it’s an indie film! like Before Sunset with an aging hitman it’s definitely pierce brosnan’s best role.
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ Tonight I watched the movie Before Sunset for the umpteenth time. This one gets me every time - the dynamics, the wording, the chemistry. Two people pretending everything is casual while, underneath, they burn for each other.
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